BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 15, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Agricultural Notice – A meeting of the Agricultural Society of the County of Otsego, will be held at the house of Joseph Munn in Cooperstown, on Thursday, the 26th day of August, inst., for the purpose of organizing the Society, agreeably to the Legislature of this state. Robert Campbell, Rec. Sec. Cooperstown, August 12, 1819. Welch Indians – It seems that a Society in the State of New York has sent out…
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BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 8, 2019 200 YEARS AGO The Progress of the Russian Empire in America – Looking to the east for everything, the people of the United States have contemplated with astonishment the progress of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia. They have not thought of looking to the west to see this giant power already mounting upon their own backs. Except Mr. Walsh, we do not know an American who has even spoken of the Russian establishments…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 1, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – Books just received for sale at the Book Store of H. & E. Phinney. “The New York Justice or a Digest of the Law relative to Justices of the Peace;” “Works of the Rev. John Newton,” 6 Vols. – also his letters and Conversational Remarks; “Cooper’s History of N. America;” “Love’s Surveying;” “Domestic Cookery;” “Woodsworth’s Poems;” “Don Quixote” 4 Vols.; “Young’s Night Thoughts,” and “Young’s Misses’ Magazine;” “Tales of Aunt…
BOUND VOLUMES July 18, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 200 YEARS AGO Died at Jerusalem, Ontario, on the 8th inst. – Jemima Wilkinson, commonly called the “Universal Friend,” aged 66 years. Her complaint, we learn, was the dropsy. A few moments previous to her death she placed herself in her Chapel, and called in her disciples one by one, and gave each a solemn admonition, then raised her hands, closed her eyes and gave…
BOUND VOLUMES July 11, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Suicide – A man by the name of William Burgin, living in Middlefield, was found dead, near the house of George Boid, Esq. on Wednesday morning last. His left arm (being strongly girt with a garter) had three deep wounds cut in it, from which he had undoubtedly bled to death – and the coroner’s inquest gave their verdict accordingly. It appears he had previously applied to Esq. Boid, one of the…
BOUND VOLUMES July 4, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Cooperstown – On Wednesday last, Benjamin P. Day, only son of Mr. Israel Day, of this village, aged 5 years, was unfortunately drowned, by falling out of a boat, on the lake. He with two other boys, entered the boat, probably for the purpose of paddling around the shore, but being driven out by the wind, in their exertions to regain the shore, he fell overboard. His body was taken out in…
BOUND VOLUMES June 27, 2019 200 YEARS AGO A new State: The bill providing for the erection of the District of Maine into a new State, has passed the Senate and House of the Assembly of Massachusetts, 193 to 50. Every member from Maine voted for the separation. The following toast was given at Athens in the State of Georgia at a dinner where the President of the United States was present: “The slave trade, the scourge of Africa, the…
BOUND VOLUMES June 20, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement: Sale of Pews – The sale of the pews in the Presbyterian Church will take place on Thursday, the first day of July next at 2 o’clock p.m. Six month’s rent will then become due. It is earnestly desired that all would pay at that time. Geo. Pomeroy, Clerk, Cooperstown, June 21, 1819. Advertisement: The inhabitants of Burlington intend to celebrate the anniversary of our national independence on the fifth day…
BOUND VOLUMES June 13, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Illegal Slave Dealing – At a Court of Quarter Sessions held in April last for the County of Sussex (Del.), Lemuel Tam was convicted of selling for exportation, a manumitted slave, and sentenced by the court to pay the sum of $500, the penalty enforced by the Act of the Assembly. At the same term James Jones, who had been convicted at the November term last, was sentenced by the court to…
BOUND VOLUMES June 6, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Sacket’s Harbor – Melancholy. On Thursday last, the unlawful discharge of a musket in this village called together a number of citizens – and sad to relate – upon enquiry, it appeared that a Mr. Walter Hanson, had, by the means of his foot, discharged the contents of a musket through his head, and was then expiring. After his decease, a jury of inquest was called, who found a verdict of self-murder,…
